International Committee of the Red Cross

International Red Cross and Red Crescent Plan of Action FOREWORD The 27th International Conference of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent took the historic step of adopting a Plan of Action for the period 2000 - 2003. The Plan of Action is divided into three chapters relevant to distinct aspects of...

Preface N early fifteen years have passed since the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) first published Prof. Frits Kalshoven's Constraints on the Waging of War. The need for an introductory textbook on the subject, which includes its origins and its most recent developments, is now...

Armed conflicts, both present and past, have greatJy affected the lives of women and girls, whether as members of the civilian population or the armed forces. Civilians - men, women and children - have died in large numbers in conflicts throughout the world. For those who survived, their lives and...

PROTOCOL I Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) PREAMBLE The High Contracting Parties, Proclaiming their earnest wish to see peace prevail among peoples, Recalling that every...

ForewordEver since its inception over a century ago, the Red Cross has been providing protection and assistance to those in distress.In normal circumstances, in the organized society in which he usually lives, man is protected by laws and finds sustenance close at hand. But there are also...

Humanitarian action What is "humanitarian action"? The weakening ofthe natural (State) protector During the Cold War, the key words governing Western thinking were Marxism v. markét economy, popular democracy v. liberal democracy, wars of national liberation v. colonialism, development v. economic...

The International Committee ofthe Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, together with the National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, form the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The ICRC, which gave rise to the Movement, is an...